US Patent Issued to Raysearch Laboratories on June 16 for "Radiotherapy treatment plan evaluation and improvement" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,031, issued on June 16, was assigned to Raysearch Laboratories AB (Stockholm).

"Radiotherapy treatment plan evaluation and improvement" was invented by Erik Traneus (Uppsala, Sweden), Lars Glimelius (Stockholm), Erik Engwall (Hagersten, Sweden) and Elias Coniavitis (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiotherapy treatment plan may be evaluated based on a combination of two or more metrics, by the steps of simulating the result of delivery of the plan, obtaining values from the simulation for at least a first and a second metric, performing a multivariate analysis of the values and determining a quality of the plan based on t...